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This paratrooper is making a final adjustment to his parachute before loading into the transport carrier
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Exeter Airfield, England, 1944: This paratrooper is making a final adjustment to his parachute before…

Exeter Airfield, England, 06/04/1944

SC 377586Field no. ETO-HQ-44-4718RG 111
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This paratrooper is making a final adjustment to his parachute before loading into the transport carrier. 6 June 1944

Date
06/04/1944
Place
Exeter Airfield, England · approximate position
Photographer
Nehez
Units
101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
People
Lt. Col. Robert Lee Wolverton
SC number
377586
Field number
ETO-HQ-44-4718
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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